Ian Abel Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Morning... well still is here 😃 Yesterday, some work, then off to our charity event. Was really great, held at a local brewery we'd not been to before, ticket included free beverages and food, can't beat that! Plenty of friends there to enjoy the event with, and I even won a framed photograph by a local photographer, in the auction - all proceeds to charity of course. Almost a four hour event, so could do with a nap today already... Today, and the rest of the week should be much more relaxing, other than working. Weather last night was perfect for an outdoor event under a canopy, today 17 sunny and breezy first thing, high of 28 expected. Onward. 15 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 Cheers all. Getting warm again and a heatwave is even predicted for next week. Joy, it is not! Dinner's up in a few, so for a bit of humour at this time of day... "I have two goldfish. One's called One and the other Two. If one dies, I'll still have two." 🤣 16 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 58 minutes ago, polybear said: This made the BBC News website - when the Police tried to stop the driver he tried to make a run for it......in a Rickshaw carrying 27 passengers 🤣 They fined him and confiscated his Rickshaw - personally I think a medal would've been more appropriate: Or an entry in the Guiness records book . 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 2 hours ago, southern42 said: Anglesey, Bangor, Betws-y-coed, Caernarfon, Llanberis, Llandudno, Pwllheli, even Porthmadog: Cloudy weekend. No sign of sun being foreseen by pinecone predictors or seaweed twirlers. Max 24C. That will knock down the numbers queueing for ice-cream! If it is like today - cloudy, with tiddly showers - it could still be quite bright. Edit - or the sun will prove them wrong and shine gloriously. 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: I will make the observation that these are all places in Wales. I'd be surprised if it didn't turn to rain. All within an hour or so drive. You will often find if it is chuckinitdarn in one place, another will be bathed in sunshine, the prevailing wind or sea breeze pushing the clouds into one range of mountains or the other, dragging the rain with it. So Menai Bridge and Bangor in the Menai Strait getting a soak, Llanfairfechan and Llandudno on the North coast getting scorched. Similarly Llanberis in Snowdonia soggy wet, Porthmadog and Pwllheli warm and dry. I have known friends, who getting rained off climbs in Snowdonia, would go round and do South Stack, Holyhead. Thus, one year, in our sailing days, when we were unable to have our annual cruise north due to "bad" weather, we drove round to Conwy in sunshine, and booked ourselves into their festival LA LA Rally [Liverpool Arms (Conwy) to Liverpool Arms (Menai Bridge)], continuing on to Caernarfon Dock with a Presentation 'do' at the end of the week in the LA, Conwy and a very friendly bunch they were too. Good sailing weather as I recall. And sitting on the trolley behind your loco at West Shore (Llandudno) in beautiful sunshine, you can watch Anglesey, Llanfairfechan and Conwy disappear in the clouds and rain. Occasionally, it may venture East in which case if you do not spot it soon enough you WILL get drenched! The wise ones notice and bring the locos off before that happens. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 1 minute ago, southern42 said: All within an hour or so drive. You will often find if it is chuckinitdarn in one place, another will be bathed in sunshine, My perspective is somewhat coloured by a week's family holiday in the area one August. It rained every day wherever we went and the driest place we visited was down the slate mine. 7 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 4 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: For the last time.. NO ONE HERE DRINKS FOSTERS!! I was going to try it but it was only sold (in south Florida) in those oilcans and decided that discretion was the better part of shopping! 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 It has been a weird year for weather this year. Plenty of occasional light snowy days (not that common here, a day or two if you are lucky/unlucky) followed by no precipitation at all and my plants dying. A few weeks continuous rain followed by a heatwave and my plants dying. BUT - it is far more comfortable atm than where I grew up....darn sarf, inland. 11 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 59 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: My perspective is somewhat coloured by a week's family holiday in the area one August. It rained every day wherever we went and the driest place we visited was down the slate mine. Sounds like my memories of a holiday in Cornwall to me. We pushed a 3 yr old and a 9 month old round every harbour north and south. As it was stiĺ raining on the last day we went and sat on the beach at Carbis Bay with a wind shield and an umbrella. The 3 yr old loved it and we had the beach to ourselves. Jamie 1 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Well the bit of rain we have had has been rather inconsequential and not enough to water the garden. The sun is now beating down 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2022 My parents must have liked summer rain, we went on holiday to North Wales, Cornwall or the west of Scotland. It had got wetter here over the last few years but we are used to seeing rain clouds dividing as they approach Benfleet. Don’t know why. Tony 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony_S Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Coombe Barton said: ... on the approach to second booster vaccines, the EU says over 60, the UK Over 75. I have had my fifth vaccine dose, so I suppose that is three boosters. I am still not over 70 (but will be soon). 11 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2022 Evenin' each, Nottalot done apart from watching T de F this afternoon. The heat is really affecting me and I felt a bit rough earlier today but have increased my water intake and that seems to have improved things considerably. We had a high of 31°C earlier but it's now down to 27° and there's a bit of a breeze. Been out and watered the garden so obviously as soon as I rolled up the hose it started to rain but after a few drops stopped again. Quite a cloudy sky and weather apps have been threatening rain or drizzle for the past couple of hours. I think they're suffering from sunstroke. I risked a cold beer before tonight's "dinner" which was only a light snack and have of course had my usual glass of red vino and will probably have another shortly. Not much for me to watch on the box tonight so I'll wait until the Boss has finished watching her stuff and then try to find a film for later. Cheers. 🍻🍷🍷 15 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Had a few spots of rain about three quarters of an hour ago but it evaporated as soon as it touched the ground. I think I heard some (very) distant thunder a few minutes ago. 19 minutes ago, Tony_S said: My parents must have liked summer rain, we went on holiday to North Wales, Cornwall or the west of Scotland. It had got wetter here over the last few years but we are used to seeing rain clouds dividing as they approach Benfleet. Don’t know why. Tony That depends on the direction the rain is coming from. If from the south west the North Downs get the rain and we stay dry. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 8 hours ago, iL Dottore said: I would argue that without understanding the philosophies behind the regimes of Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and The Soviet Union - we will be fated to repeat the same mistakes.... It has little to do with political philosophy and much more to do with how propaganda is used manipulate subjects - but I fully agree that it is quite possible in literally any society with the wrong sort of stimulus. I have mentioned it before but a show (on PBS and the BBC) called "The Brain with David Eagleman" had an episode (5-"Why do I need you?") where he focuses on how the hard-wired need to belong (to an in-group) can be manipulated with relentless propaganda to define an out-group* where any empathy for those in the out-group is destroyed. He illustrates how relatively easily this is accomplished with 1990s genocide in the former Yugoslavia - avoiding the 'usual suspects' you mentioned above. * Which may be racial, ethnic, religious, political, gender-specific, sexual preference-specific, or use almost any marker to represent 'different' (like we see in high-school cliqués: jocks, nerds, stoners, etc or, of course, football fans). I found this programme to be an excellent "neuroscience for beginners" primer and was very eye-opening. The so-called "culture wars" in the divisive politics in English-speaking democracies are a great example of how such propaganda** creates "in-groups" and "out-groups" in society and deepens the divide(s). People despair of the polarization in society, but it is clear where it is coming from. ** Not necessarily directly from the government. Our species is very susceptible to this. Empathy (for all) is a fragile thing - it's not how tribal bands of primates operate. 2 2 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 5 hours ago, southern42 said: I spy with my little eye....🌧️ I wish. We won't see any rain for perhaps weeks. There is none in the forecast. As I was going to bed, I heard an odd noise. It turned out to be a squealing in the forced-air unit* and sounded like a bad bearing in the main fan. Yesterday was hot and was still around 26°C at midnight but I turned off the AC to give the fan a rest. Technically the fan is 'always on'. There is a setting which I normally use called "Circ"(ulate) that gives it an intermittent duty cycle. * Which drives either furnace-warmed air or cooled air through the house. By morning, I believe the fan had failed - meaning no air-conditioning. I called the installer and the soonest they would schedule a diagnostic visit is a week from Thursday. (It is of course their busy season.) Today it was already 26°C before 11:00am and is forecast to be 32°C. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 Poo tins people have sunk to a new low. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putins-russian-troops-booby-27456186 3 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 22 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Poo tins people have sunk to a new low. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putins-russian-troops-booby-27456186 At least the poor pooch has survived. Unbelievable what levels they are stooping to 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Think this guy has turned into a dinosaur A megasauras perhaps https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tesco-shopper-calls-packaging-change-24460101 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said: Think this guy has turned into a dinosaur A megasauras perhaps https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tesco-shopper-calls-packaging-change-24460101 I bet that made his eyes water. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 50 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said: Today it was already 26°C before 11:00am and is forecast to be 32°C. You can relive pre-aircon Queensland! Can you get these on Amazon? Is it humid in Oregon? Can be 42 degrees here and I'm happy outside doing stuff but 32 in Brisbane or Darwin has me collapsed in the shade! 7 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said: I have mentioned it before but a show (on PBS and the BBC) called "The Brain with David Eagleman" had an episode (5-"Why do I need you?") where he focuses on how the hard-wired need to belong (to an in-group) can be manipulated with relentless propaganda to define an out-group* where any empathy for those in the out-group is destroyed. He illustrates how relatively easily this is accomplished with 1990s genocide in the former Yugoslavia - avoiding the 'usual suspects' you mentioned above. "lock her up!" "fake news media!" "Left wing radicals !" "socialist left!" etc etc 6 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2022 Evening all from Estuary-Land. Still 25C here at the moment and very sticky so time for another cold drink. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 11 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: You can relive pre-aircon Queensland! Can you get these on Amazon? Is it humid in Oregon? Can be 42 degrees here and I'm happy outside doing stuff but 32 in Brisbane or Darwin has me collapsed in the shade! The idea of those tetra-packed frozen orange ices were always more appealing than the reality. Once the packaging was penetrated (no small feat) they remained frozen solid and were hard to consume, and the flavorings would melt faster than the water leaving a frozen block of ice. In retrospect, with a sharp knife to relieve them of the packaging, they would have made great additions as decorative ice bergs in a citrusy punch bowl. Thankfully warm summer temperatures in the northwest are generally quite dry. It's not thoroughly miserable until the high 30s°C. It's just much warmer inside than I would like (26.5°C). The patio sensor says it is 33% relative humidity and 32°C right now. 4 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 They used to sell something similar to those pyramid cartons here I think they were branded Sun Lolly 3 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2022 I remember them as Jubblys. 1 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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